Recent content by Martin Alvito

  1. Martin Alvito

    Points Deduction, Appeal & 2nd PSR Charge

    That's not what this is saying. It's, "Everton is likely to be hit with a four point deduction, but personnel at the club are delusional and in denial." The latter is more or less the story of the club's fall from grace.
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    Castore/umbro

    Bit like going with the big record label as an established band whose hit records are behind them. They know they'll never be a priority for the marketing guys, who are only interested in the acts at the top of the heap and the ones that might be the next big thing. So they go with the...
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    2023/24 Jarrad Branthwaite

    Branthwaite, Tarkowski and Pickford keeping us conceding like a top half side is the reason we aren't already as doomed as Sheffield and Burnley appear to be.
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    The Dyche Slap

    I was at least planning to be charitable and suggest he was hacked. I suppose you may be right that I would be giving Dave a little too much credit for technological sophistication there.
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    777 Partners - New Poll Added 18/10/23

    "Think of how stupid the average person is. Now realize that half of them are more stupid than THAT." - George Carlin
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    777 Partners - New Poll Added 18/10/23

    One does not stay ITK by spilling the beans, or stealing thunder.
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    777 Partners - New Poll Added 18/10/23

    He bought nose candy with it.
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    777 Partners - New Poll Added 18/10/23

    We had nothing to do with the decision-making process that put us there. It's customary in Western governance to regulate natural monopolies without adequate substitutes for the good of the customers. Somehow, sports has always existed in a massive regulatory blind spot across Western...
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    777 Partners - New Poll Added 18/10/23

    Moshiri is the beggar. It's just that, by virtue of purchasing most of the club's shares, he is granted the right to allocate the consequences to the club's accounts. This is insane, if you stop and think about it for a minute.
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    Carlo At Everton.

    It looks a lot like a series of government shakedowns. I don't know enough about the subject to say if it's serial noncompliance and the government collecting what is owed, or if it's government overreach into the pockets of the wealthy that is tolerated as a cost of doing business.
  11. Martin Alvito

    Points Deduction, Appeal & 2nd PSR Charge

    It's just another way the whole affair pulls up the ladder behind the current top clubs. If a club pays market rates to compete, at the end of that brief window of competitive viability the club has to fire sale its best assets upward at a discount. It's bad enough for pricing that many...
  12. Martin Alvito

    Match Thread Fulham v Everton - Team prediction, Match Report and MotM Poll

    Pickers is the MOTM. He is far too often for my liking.
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    Match Thread Fulham v Everton - Team prediction, Match Report and MotM Poll

    Horrid thought (through no fault of his own), but GOT is dead right. An away point is a quality smash-and-grab right now. We take those.
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    Match Thread Fulham v Everton - Team prediction, Match Report and MotM Poll

    His agent should demand a cape and a certain color scheme.
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    Match Thread Fulham v Everton - Team prediction, Match Report and MotM Poll

    He would be sending someone on my level in there? I kid. The bench would destroy me...but they are no more ready for the Prem than quarter-century-ago me.
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